Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
Recent studies have shown tire emissions to be a larger threat to global health than anyone realized—and EVs could make the problem worse.
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It wasn't the plastic straws after all?
I'm shocked, shocked.Plastic straws are still very harmful for many sea animals and are apart from that entirely unnecessary (unlike tires).
As I read on masto, we should replace the tires with steel to stop the plastic pollution.
Of course to protect the road that would also have to be steel. And we'd need to link all the vehicles together to make best use of the limited steel road surface.
(It's trains)
Steel dust quickly turns to iron oxide in the environment, which is a fairly common natural mineral (it's the reason red clay is red). To be fair, there might still be some slight negative effects to ecosystems which do not naturally have a lot of iron oxide at the surface, but that wouldn't even be a rounding error compared to the harmful environmental effects of tires and asphalt. Also, steel dust is very heavy so there's essentially no chance of it getting into the air and inhaled.
In three million years, when ant scientists are trying to find a relatively cheap energy source, they'll find a layer of earth and rock laced with a peculiar concentration of condensed plastic dust, and begin mining that for fuel...
Oh no
Back in the 1900s we had cars like that they were electric, and didn't run into traffic.. I see the tracks for them every time the road is resurfaced.
I have 4 stainless steel straws never going back to that plastic bullshit
What are the odds that a PR group, well aware of the damage of tyres, spun the focus to target small consumable plastics?
Don't look at cars, look at the image of turtles and straws, seagulls and can rings, and porpoises mistaking bags for jellyfish.
And here I was walking to work trying to suck some coffee through a damp piece of cardboard, while it turns out that the suburban Panzer IV commuters were to blame? What's next?
What's next?
We've looked into it, and it is solely your fault.
Fuck! I better wash some yogurt cups and put them in the recycling bin, then. No other way to atone for my sins.